Supreme Court denies Trump s final bid to block release of financial records
22 Feb, 2021 07:11 PM
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The case concerned a subpoena to former President Donald J. Trump s accountants, Mazars USA, by the office of the Manhattan district attorney. Photo / Pete Marovich, The New York Times
The case concerned a subpoena to former President Donald J. Trump s accountants, Mazars USA, by the office of the Manhattan district attorney. Photo / Pete Marovich, The New York Times
New York Times
By: Adam Liptak
The former president s accountants will give the records he has spent years trying to shield to New York prosecutors.
Donald Trump suffered a major setback in his quest to conceal details of his finances as the US Supreme Court paved the way for the handover of the former president's tax returns to a New York City prosecutor.
Supreme Court Clears Path for New York Grand Jury to Receive President Trump Tax Returns
The background of all these institutional moves is obvious if we stand back far enough to see the bigger picture. Ultimately, Donald Trump represented an existential threat to the corrupt systems of U.S. government established over the past several decades.
As an outsider Donald J Trump had never participated in government beyond cursory attachment to some political figures.
However, Trump held the greatest priority over protecting the U.S. economy, worker and way of life for the middle-class.
President Trump’s motives in office were all about rebuilding the systems that provided Americans with a better way of life and advocated for a true nationalistic perspective.
Donald Trump suffered a major setback on Monday in his long quest to conceal details of his finances as the U.S. Supreme Court paved the way for a New York City prosecutor to obtain the former president's tax returns and other records as part of an accelerating criminal.
The U.S. Supreme Court rejected a bid by Donald Trump to keep eight years of his tax returns and other financial records out of the hands of a Manhattan prosecutor conducting a criminal investigation into the former president and his company, the Trump Organization Inc.